Teaching staff
Ole Brekke
Founder and teacher
Educated Dell ‘Arte School 1976, Ecole Jacques Lecoq 1978. Founder and director of The Commedia School in Copenhagen since 1983. Educated in Shakespeare texts with Cecily Berry, John Barton and others, movement with Axis Syllabus and others. Along with directing The Commedia School, Ole has conducted workshops in many countries on all continents often focusing in disaster areas with victims of natural disasters and refugees from war.
Ruth Lerche
DIRECTOR and teacher
Jonathan Paul Cook
Teacher
Lukas Rakcy
Feldenkrais teacher
Lukas is educated in contemporary dance & choreography at the State Theater School in Copenhagen. Apart from being a freelance performer, dancer and art-maker, Lukas has completed the 4-year education in the Feldenkrais method.
As Lukas put it “I will be teaching this beautiful approach to human learning and moving. I love sharing this work with performing artists, where it can be a tool for self-care as well as expanding ones way of expressing oneself in front of an audience.”
Lukas Rakcy
Feldenkrais teacher
Lukas is educated in contemporary dance & choreography at the State Theater School in Copenhagen. Apart from being a freelance performer, dancer and art-maker, Lukas has completed the 4-year education in the Feldenkrais method.
As Lukas put it “I will be teaching this beautiful approach to human learning and moving. I love sharing this work with performing artists, where it can be a tool for self-care as well as expanding ones way of expressing oneself in front of an audience.”
Linnea happonen
Teacher
Linnea Happonen is a theatre maker (performer, director, teacher) – MA from the Prague Academy of Performing Arts (DAMU), department of Alternative and Puppet Theatre, and also a graduate of the Commedia School, Copenhagen. She is artistic director of Krepsko Theatre Group, founded in Prague in 2001, and still active. Her performances are mostly non-text-based, emphasize visual expression and atmosphere, and often incorporate object theatre, puppetry and other disciplines. She has worked in many formats, from tiny solo shows to cabarets for 20 performers, and created numerous site-specific projects with different ensembles.
Tuba Keleş
Teacher
Guest Teachers
Jaime Mears
Teacher
Jaime is a Sydney born actress and Churchill Fellow with over twenty years of experience in Theatre, Television and film. Jaime has taught for some of the largest Drama Schools in Australia and Portugal and has taught workshops for artists in the UK, Russia, Germany, Denmark and Hungary. Jaime works as a professional hospital clown with Operação Nariz Vermelho since 2018 . She has also taught for Hospital Clown Organisations in Portugal, Russia and Denmark. She regularly performs as an idiot in order to prevent herself from taking her career too seriously.
Jette Vejrup
Teacher
Jakob Bentsen
Mask and movement Teacher
Jakob Bentsen is a Danish perform, he was educated in the 70ties at École Jacques Lecoq and has since been touring the world with several companies including MUMMENSCHANZ which performed on Broadway in New York. Jakob has worked with multiple companies, both performing and instructing. Jakob has also been teaching abroad and in Denmark like at the Cirkus school AMOK and the Royal Danish State Theater School. Besides this Jakob is also a painter, sculptor, and mask-maker.
Karl Brekke
Teacher
Karl Brekke is an England-based performer, dancer, and choreographer. He has collaborated with renowned theatres, including Complicité, Junk Ensemble, and Sweetshop Revolution. In 2022 he co-founded the company Barking Trees with Faith Prendergast to begin to explore making their own work in a collaborative way. They have performed excerpts of their current work Simorgh Soup in the UK, Denmark and Turkey.
Faith Prendergast
Teacher
Faith grew up in Colorado, USA, when she began dancing at a young age at a local dance school. She went on to train at the San Francisco Conservatory of Dance (2009-2010) and then acquired a BA(Hons) at Rambert School of Ballet and Contemporary Dance (2010-2013). In 2022 she co-founded the company Barking Trees with Karl Brekke to begin to explore making their own work in a collaborative way. They have performed excerpts of their current work Simorgh Soup in the UK, Denmark and Turkey.
Petra Föhrenbach
Mask Teacher and Make-up
Specialized in physical theatre; social history and body language of the Commedia dell’Arte; working with masks as documents of the cultural memory.
Finbarr Ryan
Teacher
Mask maker and performer.
Katrina Bugaj
teacher
Katrina Bugaj is a Copenhagen-based American director, performer/creator, writer, researcher-practitioner and teacher. She is co-founder and Artistic Director of Out of Balanz. Under her direction, Out of Balanz was named one of the 11 most innovative physical theatre companies, alongside such companies as The SITI Company and DV8, in the performing arts trade magazine backstage.com. Katrina is an alumni member of the prestigious Lincoln Center Director’s Lab in New York City and her work has been performed in over 15 countries throughout Europe, North America and Asia, including The John Houseman Theatre off-Broadway and The Barbican in London.
Danish / English